TONIGHT WE'RE LEARNING MORE ABOUT THE SUSPECT'S SHOOT OUT WITH POLICE. HIS MAD DASH TO HIDE AND THE MAN WITH HIM. GOOD EVENING. I'M JIM PAYNE. I'M SYAN RHODES. IT BEGAN WHEN POLICE PULLED OVER TWO MEN DURING A ROUTINE TRAFFIC STOP. POLICE SAY ONE OF THEM, 23-YEAR-OLD DEMETRIUS PATTERSON, OPENED FIRE ON THE OFFICER ON ROSEBORO STREET THIS MORNING. THEN HE ESCAPEED TO A NEARBY HOME WHERE HE HELD POLICE AT BAY FOR HOURS WITH A SMALL CHILD INSIDE. WE HAVE TEAM COVERAGE. WESH 2'S GREG FOX LIVE AT THE HOSPITAL WHERE THE OFFICER IS RECOVERING. WE BEGIN WITH BOB KEALING LIVE IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD WHERE THIS ALL UNFOLDED. BOB, YOU HAVE NEW INFORMATION ABOUT THE WEAPON BELIEVED TO HAVE BEEN USED BY THE SUSPECT? YEAH, JIM. FROM THE POLICE REPORT WE HAVE LEARNED THAT PATTERSON WENT OVER TO THIS TWO-STORY HOUSE BECAUSE IT BELONGED TO HIS COUSIN. INVESTIGATORS SAYING THEY FOUND A HANDGUN UNDERNEATH THE MATTRESS THEY BELIEVE WAS USED IN THE SHOOTING. MEANWHILE, DURING THIS TENSE STANDOFF, NEIGHBORS TELL US THEY WERE WORRIED ABOUT THEIR OWN SAFETY AS WELL AS THAT SMALL CHILD. THAT IT KEPT TELLING HIM TO COME OUT. RUBY DARLING ASKED US NOT TO SHOW HER FACE. AROUND 2:45 ORLANDO POLICE SAY 24-YEAR-OLD OFFICER JASON HAJEK WAS SHOT AT LEAST ONCE IN THE STOMACH UNDER HIS VEST AFTER PULLING OVER DEMETRIUS PATTERSON, A CAREER CRIMINAL, FOR RECKLESS DRIVING. WOUNDED AND BLEEDING, POLICE PAPERS SAY, PATTERSON FLED TO HIS COUSIN'S HOME WHERE A SEVEN-YEAR-OLD GIRL WAS SLEEPING. STASHED HIS HANDGUN UNDER A MATTRESS AND HID OUT. I WAS SCARED. POLICE CHIEF PAUL ROONEY PRAISED HIS YOUNG OFFICER WHO WAS ABLE TO RETURN FIRE HITTING ONE SUSPECT IN THE FOOT. LET ME TELL YOU THIS. THIS OFFICER DID SUCH A GOOD JOB AFTER GETTING SHOT LAYING IN THE BUSHS TO GIVE OUT AN EXACT LOCATION AND SUSPECT INFORMATION. FOR AT LEAST THREE TENSE HOURS RESIDENTS WERE UNDER SIEGE. I WAS IN MY HALLWAY AND I WAS SCARED BECAUSE I DIDN'T KNOW WHETHER THEY WERE GOING TO HAVE TO SHOOT HIM. I WANT TO STAND BETWEEN THE WALLS THAT WOULDN'T, YOU KNOW, HURT ME OR ANYTHING. ALL NIGHT MY WIFE AND KIDS THEY ARE NOT SLEEPING. AND WE DON'T KNOW WHAT IS HAPPENING. LITTLE BEFORE EIGHT, THE SEVEN-YEAR-OLD GIRL CAME OUT OF THE HOUSE UNHARMED. THEN THE WOUNDED SUSPECT WAS DRAGGED OUT. RESIDENTS IN THE HOME HEAVILY DAMAGED IN THE S.W.A.T. ASSAULT WOULD NOT COMMENT ON WHETHER PATTERSON KNOWS THEM. YOU DON'T HAVE ANY CONNECTION TO THIS GUY? OKAY. THANK YOU. JUST WITHIN THE LAST HOUR WE HAVE ALSO LEARNED THAT INVESTIGATORS ACTUALLY WENT TO THE HOSPITAL AND SHOWED A PHOTO LINE-UP TO THE WOUNDED OFFICER. THEY SAY HE PICKED OUT THIS SUSPECT IMMEDIATELY. HE'S NOW BEING HELD WITHOUT BOND. ALSO THE PERSON WHO WAS IN THE CAR WITH PATTERSON FLED BUT HE HAS NOT BEEN CHARGED. HE WAS LOCATED. REPORTING LIVE IN ORLANDO, ORANGE COUNTY, BOB KEALING, WESH 2 NEWS. OFFICER HEY ZEK WAS RUSHED TO THE HOSPITAL AFTER THE SHOOTOUT. WESH 2'S GREG FOX PICKS UP OUR STORY FROM THERE LIVE AT ORMC. HOW THAT IS OFFICER DOING RIGHT NOW? HE'S DOING MUCH BETTER. I TALKED TO THE POLICE CHAPLIN A FEW MINUTES AGO HE TELLS ME THAT THE OFFICER IS TALKING NOW. HE'S BEEN WITH HIS PARENTS MUCH OF THE DAY AND THEY ARE CERTAINLY RELIEVED THAT HE SURVIVED. WHEN WE ARREST THESE GUYS WE GOT TO PUT THEM AWAY. MAYOR BUDDY DYER WAS OUTRAGED THAT SHOOTING SUSPECT DEMETRIUS PATTERSON WASN'T SECURELY BEHIND BARS GIVEN HIS TRACK RECORD OF DOZENS OF CHARGES AND AT LEAST 17 ARRESTS. YET HE'S STILL ON THE STREETS ABLE TO DO THINGS LIKE HE DID LAST NIGHT. THE OFFICER POLICE SAY WAS SHOT BY PATTERSON WAS RUSHED TO ORMC. JASON HAJEK HAD A BULLET WOUND IN THE BELLY. THE OFFICER WAS AWAKE AND SUCCESSFULLY THROUGH SURGERY WHEN THE MAYOR AND CHIEF PAID HIM A VISIT AND TALKED WITH HIS FAMILY. THEY'RE DOING OKAY. A LITTLE SHOCKED TO GET A, YOU KNOW, SOMEBODY KNOCKING ON THE DOOR, AN OFFICER KNOCKING ON THE DOOR AT THREE IN THE MORNING BUT THEY'RE OKAY. THEY REALIZE THE DANGERS OF LAW ENFORCEMENT AND THEY'RE HAPPY THAT WE THINK HE'S GOING BE OKAY. THE MAYOR CALLED HAJEK A HERO FOR HIS COURAGEOUS ABILITY TO SHOOT BACK AND PROVIDE RADIO DIRECTION THAT'S LED TO PATTERSON'S ARREST. BUT DYER SAID HAJEK IS ONE OF MANY WHO HAVE A DAILY JOB OF PUTTING THEMSELVES AT RISK. I THINK ALL OF OUR OPD OFFICERS ON HEROES AND HEROINES EVERY DAY. THIS EVENT JUST CALLS ATTENTION TO THEIR HEROIC DUTY. THEY'RE HEROIC EVERY TIME THEY STEP IN THE CAR OR PULL SOMEBODY OVER BESIDE THE ROAD. IT REMINDS OUR CITIZENS THAT EVERY NIGHT THEY'RE ON PATROL WHILE WE'RE SLEEPING SAFELY IN OUR BED MAKING SURE WE'RE SAFE AS ORLANDO CITIZENS. CHIEF ROONEY STRESSED TODAY THERE ARE TWO BIG REASONS WHY THIS OFFICER SURVIVED THIS ORDEAL TODAY. NUMBER 1, HIS POLICE TRAINING. NUMBER 2, HIS OWN PERSONAL COURAGE. LIVE AT ORMC. GREG FOX, WESH 2 NEWS. ACCUSED SHOOTER PATTERSON HAS A LENGTHY RAP SHEET. HIS FIRST ARREST CAME WHEN HE WAS JUST NINE. ALL TOGETHER HE'S BEEN ARRESTED 17 TIMES. HE FACED 42 CHARGES INCLUDING 26 FELONIES AND 16 MISDEMEANORS. THE POLICE CHIEF ALONG WITH MAYOR DYER SAYS LAW ENFORCEMENT CAN DO BETTER TO KEEP PEOPLE LIKE PATTERSON LOCKED UP. WHEN WE ARREST THESE GUYS WE GOT TO PUT THEM AWAY. SO WORKING DIRECTLY WITH THE STATE ATTORNEY MAYBE STRENGTHENING SOME OF THE LAWS TO PUT THESE BAD GUYS AWAY. BECAUSE SOMEBODY THAT'S BEEN ARRESTED FOR FELONIES 26 TIMES AND HE'S STILL OUT AT THREE IN THE MORNING WITH A GUN IN HIS CAR. WE DON'T KNOW THEY PROBABLY ROBBED SOME PEOPLE LAST NIGHT. PATTERSON WHO TURNED 23